Focus on Marine Projects
MARINE PROJECTS WEEK
The vital marine projects industry continues to expand worldwide, as evidenced by the latest developments related to dredging, land reclamation, and port and offshore construction works we have been covering via our regular news stories. We have also been seeing new vessels entering service to perform a multitude of roles in a range of environments, from the inland and coastal waterways of North America to the more open port waters of Africa and Western Europe.
Dredging and Land Reclamation • Maritime Infrastructure Development • Installation and Decommissioning • Maritime Surveying • Port Development • Offshore Wind Farm Development
This industry is not short on innovation, as many of these highly capable vessels continue to demonstrate. Some have alternative propulsion technologies to reduce environmental impact whereas others boast high levels of automation, allowing more projects to be completed without significantly increasing the numbers of deployed crews.
Readers of Baird Maritime can rest assured that the marine projects industry, especially the vessels and technology that comprise that industry, will continue to be regularly featured on these pages.
Vessel Reviews:
- Southern Rock – Netherlands’ Hartman Seatrade welcomes newbuild to heavy lift fleet
- Lorraine Hooks – Cutter suction dredger to serve US Gulf Coast market
- Hegemann V – Germany’s Hegemann puts new inland and coastal dredger into service
- R. B. Weeks – Second large hopper dredger for New Jersey marine contractor
- Mohoma – Dredging tug delivered to South African port operator
News and Gear:
- Dredging of Australia’s Swansea Channel gets green light following environmental approval
- Contract awarded for Delaware River maintenance dredging
- Reclamation works enter second phase at Maldives’ Gulhifalhu Island
- Enlargement works completed at Netherlands’ Twente Canal
- Tug and Salvage Vessel News Roundup | July 4 – US newbuilding orders, Russian response tug launch and Dutch-designed electric workboat range
- Ohio River channel maintenance begins near Evansville, Indiana
- Berth construction completed at Port Freeport, Texas
- Who’s Who: Maritime Movements for May/June 2023
- Port expansion to double capacity at Indonesia’s Belawan New Container Terminal
- UK’s Portland Port opens new deep-water cruise berth
- Consortium to build tug quay at Rotterdam Port’s Yangtze Canal
- Ghana’s Takoradi Port secures US$23 million loan for floating dock construction
Recent Important Features:
– “To receive a similar ‘change of control’ bonus in 2023 for merging the two companies would be egregious, and it is exactly the sort of corporate governance that we have criticised in the past.”
– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime‘s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations
– “Gulf and Red Sea owners of landing craft report that they are completely sold out of vessels as the Saudi government tries to fast track construction in an area largely bereft of existing infrastructure and facilities.”
– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime‘s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations
FEATURE | Dutch design firm unveils autonomous coastal replenishment dredger
– “Its purpose is to deliver sediment to coastlines to protect the land in a sustainable manner.”
Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!
Call for content!
Any news or views about the global marine project sector? Send it through to [email protected] ASAP (between now and July 7), so we can add it to this current edition of Marine Projects Week!
We are after:
- Vessels – Orders, new deliveries, under construction
- Gear – Latest innovations and technology in the marine projects sector
- Interviews – Owners, operators, dredging companies, marine contractors, port developers, etc.
- Reminiscences – Do you have any exciting, amusing or downright dangerous anecdotes from your time in the marine projects world? (example here)
- Other – Any other relevant news
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